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Letter of the day

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11/19/2012 12:00:00 AM MST

To some, the recent legalization of marijuana in Washington and Colorado is a clear proof of the country's direction to pandemonium. The issues are based around moral perceptions of the drug. This moral, in my opinion, is antiquated. The roots of the arguments look through prejudicing eyes and not objectivity.

Most arguments sound like this "How can people even think about legalizing narcotics like marijuana?" People react to words, in this case "narcotic" eclipses objectivity.

Alcohol, being a narcotic, has no problem appearing in most freezers of stores in the U.S. As cliche as it may sound, alcohol is more harmful than marijuana, but since it is responsible for an enormous part of the U.S. economy it is legal.

We can only imagine what an economy booster marijuana can be.

Other arguments seem to take the decision out of people, some people think that legalizing marijuana will create an unstoppable wave, where everyone "will" smoke the drug, ignoring that people can decide not to use marijuana, just as it happens with alcohol or tobacco.

Our society never ceases to evolve and if our morals do not evolve with it they become the perfect road to refraining or even to regression.

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